3-3-25 Bill Cunningham Show

Willie talks about Kentucky having to extradite suspects from Ohio after medical treatment. Also Wayne Allen Root explains how he got Pete Rose pardoned. Finally Willie discusses the rumors of his untimely demise.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Billy Cunningham, the Great America, welcome this Monday afternoon in
the Tri State all as well. The reports of my
demise are somewhat premature. It's not true. You can't believe
what Sloaney says. I am the Way, the truth, and
the Light, not Sloaney. But that's a different issue. Janan,
you and I now is the great Rob Sanders, Sanders
for Kentucky. Colonel Sanders for Kentucky may step up and

(00:27):
take over the Senate seat. And Rob Sanders, welcome again
to the Bill Cunningham Show.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
And Colonel how are you Willie. I'm doing well. Thanks
for having me back on this Monday. It's nice of
you to sub for ken Brew today and you know
fill in. Yeah, you're a very adequate fill in.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's nice to have the Great American substituting for the
average American.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, I'm back, loud, proud, and sassy, and let's talk.
First of all, we're gonna talk about mego versus McConnell,
Not Mike McConnell, but Mitch McConnell. Well, we'll deal with
that in the second half. But of course, when I
was monitoring events all over the world, I see that
you had a bank robbery happening on sixth in Madison,
a US bank on Friday afternoon. Just in time, get

(01:09):
you home by six or seven pm at night. Tell
the American people what happened with the shootdown on the
mean streets of Covington.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well, Covington police were called the US Bank, as you
mentioned at six in Madison. The initial call was for
a bank robbery that was ongoing with the subject trying
to rob the bank with a can of gasoline.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
That was a first for me.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Never had anybody rob a bank by Arson and Kenton
County since I've been around here.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
But then in the.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Middle of that, while officers were responding, they got updates
that the suspect also had a gun and had displayed
a gun, so they knew they were going to encounter.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
An armed bank robbery.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
At that point, to a Covington's finest arrived on the scene.
Actually a whole bunch of them arrived on the scene,
but one of them stayed at the bank and some
folks near the hotel Covington flagged the other two officers
down and were pointing down an alley that is between
Madison and Scott Street.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Six and seven streets.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
It's an east west alley in there, saying the guy
you're looking for went down there. Two of Covington's finest
went down that alley where they encountered Charles Davis, who
was sixty two years old. He's from right here in Covington,
believe it or not, on Scott Street. The biggest chakra
of this whole story, WILLI, is that he wasn't from Ohio. Nevertheless,
mister Davis was walking down the alley dropping money as

(02:29):
he went. There was money blowing all over the alley.
With the officers were coming down to apprehend mister Davis.
He pulled what appeared to be a handgun from his pocket,
and the two Covington officers opened fire and striking mister Davis.
He fell to the ground, but didn't stay on the
ground very long. Went for the gun again while he
was on the ground, causing the officers to discharge their

(02:51):
weapons a second time.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
They eventually charged.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Mister Davis, took him into custody, got and medical attention.
Covington Fire Department took them straight over to University of
Cincinnati Medical Center, where they are remarkably good at patching
people back up from gunshot wounds, which only creates more
work for me, Willie. But nevertheless, we'll be happy to
take care of mister Davis, although he might end up

(03:16):
getting charged federally. The FBI actually showed up on the scene,
which is a rather new thing. It must be this
new leadership at the FBI, Willie, but they're getting back
in the bank robber business and may actually be prosecuting somebody,
which is a welcome change. We're always willing to share
the wealth here in Kenton County when it comes to crime,
and if our friends in the federal government want to

(03:36):
prosecute mister Davis for robbing us bank, we certainly welcome
them back to Kenton County. It's you know, it's funny, Willie.
When I started out as an assistant prosecutor, the FEDS
took every bank robbery, and then it dropped down to, well,
only bank robberies with handguns, and then it dropped down to, well,
only if it's a serial bank robber. And we really

(03:57):
haven't seen much federal prosecution when it comes to bank
robberies in the past few years, but it seems now
that that is going to change.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
I can only assume that that is a.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Newfound change brought on by the Trump administration in Cash
Bettel being in charge of the FBI and Pam Bondi
being in charge of the Department of Justice. But we
welcome them back to the bank robbery prosecution business.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
And I rob sixty two years old. I assume this
is his first rodeo because it's rather stupid what he did. Unfortunately,
he's going to live, which is another problem. But I
guess the FBI is going to quit rating the home
of ex presidents tipping CNN ahead of time. What they're
going to do maybe get back in the business of
bank robberies and forgeries and and bezelm and that kind
of stuff. But is mister Davis, is this his first

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rodeo at the age of sixty two years old with
a gallon of gasoline?

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Well, he surprisingly will. He has no felony convictions here
in Kentucky. Now, I haven't had a chance to run
his ENDCIC yet to find out if he's got some
across the river. Maybe he's a transplant from Cincinnati, and
that's why I'm surprised to learn that he was living
here in Covington. But nevertheless, I don't know. If he's
been convicted of a felonies in another state, that'll be
part of the ongoing investigation, of course, which may not

(05:08):
land on my desk. It sounds like, but we'll see.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
You're more than a happen to give up the case.
You got enough to do, right.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
We got plenty of work going on over here, Willie.
We got all kinds of rapes, robbery's, child molestings, the murders,
you name it. They you know, is for a safe
a town as Kenton County is. We still have plenty
of prosecution business to be done. I'm starting to trial
tomorrow in fact, so you know, we stay pointing businey.
That's why we're willing to share the wealth with our

(05:35):
friends in the federal government. If you know, whenever they
want to prosecute somebody, all they have to do is
let us know.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
So inside the bank you have a handgun and a
can of gasolene. Kind of walk us through what happened
at the teller station that Did he threaten to maybe
shoot the gallon of gasolene to blow it up? Did he?
Why bring gasolene when you got a gun get into
the mine in Charles Davis Well.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
I haven't seen the video from inside the bank yet, Willie,
but just based upon the radio traffic that the dispatch
center was putting out to the police officers, he apparently
was threatening to light the can of gasoline on fire
sort of blow the bank up, I suppose by lighting
a can of gasolene on fire. Yeah, I'm not sure
exactly how that was supposed to work out, but that's

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what they were being told over the radio as police
were responding, and then as they were on their way
to the bank, that's when the dispatchers told the responding
officers that he had a gun. Now, I'm not sure
I believe this gun may turn out to be a
fake gun. I've seen some pictures of what was taken
into evidence, but it certainly looks real enough that if

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I were the officers, I wouldn't be waiting around to
find out if it was real or fake. When that
gun's pointed at you and you're looking right down the barrel,
if it doesn't have a fluorescent orange tip on the
end of it or something, and even sometimes then, because
lord knows, we've had criminals in the paths that have made,
you know, painted their guns up to look like toys
to try and trick the police. But nevertheless, this one

(07:04):
didn't look just like a handgun. It was dark, it
had a barrel, it was pointed right at the officers.
So you know, it's no wonder. It's said old saying
that fafodal Willie. If you're gonna play stupid games, you're
gonna win stupid prizes. Mister Davis lucky to be alive.
He's lucky that they have just fantastic doctors and nurses

(07:26):
over at University Hospital that managed to save people's lives
on a regular basis. And as often as people get
shot on the north side of the river, that's a
really good thing. But nevertheless, it does mean more work
for the prosecutors on the south side of the river
when the person getting shot is a bank.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Robber, and so Rob Sanders. When you take someone across
the Ohio River, Tony Benner may not know this extradition
is involved, and so you have to gunshot wounds. If
you get a gunshot wound, get to University Hospital, you
got a good shot of living. Unless you're a cobaka aba.
That's a different story. So when you take a bank robber,
was shot to UC Medical What is the process to

(08:02):
get them back to Kenton County.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Well, you hit on.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
A very important point. Willy University Medical Center is the
only eleven one trauma center within probably one hundred miles
of here, or real close to one hundred miles. The
next closest one is University of Kentucky Medical Center down
in Lexington, which I always try and talk to fireman
and then driving them to Lexington so I don't have
to extra guide them back to Kentucky. But I don't know,

(08:27):
saving people's lives, I guess comes above more work for
Rob Sanders in the fireman's mind, because they always go
ahead and take them to UC. But then we have
to get warrants for those people's arrest. We're not allowed
to just drive back across the river and put them
in handcuffs and drive them back to Kentucky. We have
to get warrants for their arrest with put the warrant
in NCIC, then get our friends at the Cincinnati Police

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Department or Hamilton County Sheriff's Office to serve those warrants
and take them to the Hamilton County Justice Center. And
even though it's just a few blocks away, Willie. They
have to sit there in the Hamilton County Detention Center
until they get a court appearance, and they can waive extradition,
which means the Kenton County schafful drive over in the
next day or two and pick them up, or they

(09:10):
can fight extradition, in which case it could take months
to get them back, and we have to call our
friends down at the Governor's office and get a governor's.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Warrant and send that paperwork.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
It's a whole lot of work, a whole lot of paperwork,
all sorts of red tape, just to get somebody a
few blocks north across the river. But nevertheless, does are
all the hoops we have to jump through. It's no
different bringing them back from Cincinnati as it would be
from Hawaii or Maine or any other corner of the
United States. It doesn't matter how near or far away

(09:38):
that depending is. If they're on the other side of
the state line, we have to jump through all these
hoops to extradite them back to Kentucky.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
And sant E's is a great hospital. Hell I was
born there. But nonetheless, if they're not been designated at
trauma level one, if you don't take them to the
best facility. You could be accused of not caring sufficiently
for this shot bank robber by taking him to a
hospital not designated by National Institute of Health as a
Level one trauma center. I get that now. Secondly, as

(10:06):
you may know, Tony Bender's good friend Mitch McConnell has
decided not to run for reelection. I'm not sure he's
going to make it a live till next year, but
that's another issue. And when I talked to Mega types,
they tell me this is going to be the Battle
Royale because the Trumpster does not want to have someone
like Mitch McConnell represent Kentucky in the US Senate because

(10:27):
Mitch mcconnald's turn to the dark side. Of course, Trump
won Kentucky by thirty percentage points, but that's lost on
Mitch McConnell, and so it's going to be Mega versus McConnell,
Mega versus McConnell. Who wins that matchup?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Willie, That's a really confusing question because you know, there's
everybody in the race, at least everybody that's rumored to
be getting in the race so far, has got connections
to both Trump and McConnell. So, especially when you're talking
about Daniel Cameron. You know, when he ran for governor Kentucky,
he had Donald Trump's endorsement, much to the chagrin of
some of his opponents who thought that they were going

(11:05):
to get the Trump endorsement and did not. He came
out in favor of Daniel Cameron. Now Daniel Cameron's running again.
But of course Daniel Cameron got his start in politics
by being general counsel for Senator McConnell. So obviously he
is very close to Senator McConnell.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
But everybody involved has been closed.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Senator McConnell's been involved in Kentucky politics pretty much synonymous
with federal Kentucky politics for the last thirty forty years.
So it's very difficult to find anybody who can make
it on a stage that large where they could be
a bible candidate for the US Senate in Kentucky that
doesn't have some kind of connections to the McConnell network

(11:44):
and the McConnell network. Even though Mitch McConnell has gotten sideways,
I would say with the bulk of the Republican Party,
most of whom are very strong supporters Donald Trump here
in Kentucky of late, he still has a very large networks,
had hundreds of people that have worked for him as

(12:05):
either interns or students.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Or along the way.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
The McConnell's scholarship program in Kentucky is very well known.
Lots of the people that receive McConnell's scholarships go on
to work in Senator McConnell's office. Needless to say, this
isn't so much to pat him on the back as
it is as much to articulate just how broad his
network is. So even though he is on his way
out the door, there are a lot of people that

(12:29):
are very fond of Senator McConnell, who are very influential
in Kentucky politics in.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Their own right.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
And so it'll be very interesting to see whether Donald
Trump endorses in the Senate race, whether Mitch McConnell endorses
in the Senate race, and where the McConnell network gets involved.
When they call it the McConnell machine, and it will
be interesting to see if that machine is united behind
one candidate or if they're fractured and broken up behind

(12:55):
multiple candidates, which certainly is a possibility. Is multiple candidates
with McAll connections jump in the race.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Well, of course, Tony Bender of Boone County loves Andy Basheer,
the current governor, And of course there's reports that Bascher
is going to jump out of the He's got two
more years to serve that he's going to run for
the Senate seat. So give me a matchup, Andy Bascher
versus Cameron, Andy Bascher versus Scott Jennings, the CNN contributor,
Andy Basheer versus Rob Sanders, the Colonel or Andy Bascher

(13:24):
versus Tony Bender. Does Andy does Basher win that thing?

Speaker 2 (13:30):
I don't think Basher jumps in at all, Willie, And
I'll tell you why. I think he's hoping to run
for president in twenty twenty eight. And if he runs
for Senate and loses, his chances of being the Democratic
nominee for president go way down. Now, as you know, Willie,
I'm not exactly the biggest Andy Basheer fan in the world.
I don't think he's got a shot, a prayer anything

(13:51):
to be president of the United States. But nevertheless, there's
a lot of people in the Democratic Party in Kentucky.
You know, a lot of people in the Democratic Party
nationwide that I don't have. They just haven't met Andy
Basheer because he's about as exciting as as white toast.
But they think he's got a shot at president. I
think he thinks he's got a shot at president. So

(14:11):
I don't think he jumps in the Senate race at all,
and that's why he's trying to keep his powder drive
for the presidential race.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Nevertheless, if he were to.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Change his mind and jump in the Senate race, it
would be interesting. I think Scott Jennings could be a
very formidable, formidable opponent to anybody. I don't know that
he's got the name ID, but I've seen him on
TV before.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
He is very sharp witted.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Very intelligent, very experienced when it comes to politics. He's
been involved in campaigns, usually more behind the scenes for decades,
but he's got his own PR company that's very adept
at running campaigns, and the folks down there not they
really know what they're doing. I think Andy Barr has
done a good job staying elected and re elected in

(14:54):
his congressional district, which encompasses a lot of the Lexington area,
which is one of the few blue holdout locations. You
know Lexington's much more politically similar to Hamilton County or Cincinnati.
More specifically, it's very blue. Yet Andy bars keeps getting
elected down there, so I don't think you can discount
his chances. And then you never know if another Congressman

(15:16):
from Kentucky, like our own Thomas Massey, or like Jamie Comer,
might jump in the race as well, So it could
get very crowded, it could get very messy. As we've
already mentioned, Daniel Cameron's still hanging out and everybody's been
knowing he's been eyeing that seat since he lost the
governor race. But that, you know that lost in the
governor race makes him vulnerable. Willis You know, some people

(15:37):
smell blood in the water, and that might factor.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Into Andy Bashier's decision too.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
He could change his mind if he thinks that Daniel
Cameron is going to be the Republican nominee. He's probably
sitting there thinking to himself, well, I already beat him once,
why wouldn't I beat him again? But this will probably
be a very different risk because when we're talking federal
politics as opposed to state politics, you know, it's it's
a whole different ballgame because We're not just talking about
who's given out the big FEMA checks or who's holding

(16:04):
their drinks with Andy or whatever he called his press
conferences every day during COVID. I think, generally speaking, your
average voter in Kentucky looks at the governorship and thinks
they would do far less damage if they elect a
Democrat governor as opposed to electing a Democrat to the
United States Senate.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Of course, Tony's.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
Got to benated legislature.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
We got a big question for you. Of course, you're
an honorary Kentucky colonel, as I am, Colonel Sanders for Kentucky.
Even though the headquarters have left the Louisville I love
the KFC products. Could you possibly is Colonel Sanders run
in Kentucky and put a chicken in every pot? Is
that a possibility?

Speaker 3 (16:46):
It's always a possibility, Willy.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
But the biggest downside about that is I've spent the
last eighteen plus years now building the Commonwealth Attorney's Office
into the best fellony prosecutor's office in Kentucky. And if
I leave, guess who gets to appoint my replacement? And
Andy would get to appoint my replacement, I wouldn't trust
him to point one of the fine assistants that work
for me. I've got a number of them here that

(17:09):
could run my office if anything were to God forbid,
happened to me.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
But it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Just you know, it's not like having a lieutenant governor
or a vice president where they automatically assume control of
my office. If anything happens to me, or if I
run for US Senate and win, my vacancy would be
filled by the Andy Basheer himself, and I would have
no control over who that person was. And the last
thing I'm going to do is turn Kenton County and

(17:35):
the Comal with Attorney's office over to some George Soros
loving type to be a liberal voice in the prosecutor's office.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
That's the last thing kent County need.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
I think a pride checking in every part will make
a lot of sense to me, Colonel, But we got
a run. We'll see what happens. Scott Jennings, I love
that guy. I've met Daniel Cameron under your leadership seems good.
And nonetheless, Andy Barr would be fine too. It's just
Kentucky's got to stay public and because the next four
years are going to be rough no matter who's in office.
Once again, Colonel Rob Sanders of Kentucky, thanks again for

(18:08):
coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
Willie, it's been a pleasure.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
And hey, let me know when you hear which game
Vanilla Ice will be playing ad this year at the
Reds Games. And you know we'll attend his concert together.
I haven't seen the schedule yet.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
I'm going to talk to talk to the powers that
be Karen Kraft, and let's do it. We'll be dancing
on our leisure suits looking.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Good, excellent, Willy. I look forward to it.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Thank you, Rob Sanders for Kentucky at fried Chicken in
every pot, and I love the Coleslaw. All on News
Radio seven hundred wlw.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
N.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Let's set the record straight, and we have coming up
in about twenty five minutes the man who began the
effort to have Pete rose and has since reinstated to
get into the Hall of Fame. Of course, his name
is Wayne Allen Root. He was with the President about
two or three months ago. I've seen the conversation between
the two of them, and out on the Root said, look,

(19:01):
mister President, at that point he had been elected but
not taking off as yet. Pete Rose should be shall
we say, pardon for his income tax evasion and Wayne
on the Roots started. It's on about twenty minutes at
one oh five Eastern time. He's going to talk about that.
But let's get on to the reports of my debt, demise,
injury or disability, all of which are false. They're a

(19:22):
bit premature. I'm sure at some point it will occur,
but this point it isn't. As you know, last night,
I do my syndicated show and Austin el Moore a producer,
and by the way, he's forgotten more about sports than
many people know. Was that doing sports broadcasting? Here in
the same studio from which I'm broadcasting from. In front
of me is a TELLOSAVSAT pad. It looks like a

(19:45):
fancy phone. It's about six inches by about twelve inches
and that's how we put callers on the air. So
last night he had moved the console. Instead of being
more or less in arms reach, it was about four
feet away from the microphone where I'm now broadcasting from.
And so came time to take some calls, as I

(20:06):
often do, and the first caller, I think it was
a guy named Mark from Missouri who I've never met.
So to put him on the air, you have to
hit a button. There's eight lines there. I hit the button.
He's on the air. So I stand up. Let me
try it. Now here we go.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
No.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
I stood up in order to reach over to four
feet and pull the pad closer to me. And then
when I done so, I kept my head in front
of the microphone, so I had to reach a little
bit further to pull it over. And unknownst to me,
as I got up, the chair itself I sit in
kind of rolled off to the left. I didn't know that.

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So I'm reaching for the pad. I'm talking like this,
and I sit down and instead of a chair being
beneath my buttocks, it was open floor. And I fell.
I don't know. My three feet hit the floor and
I rolled back and I hit my head on the
wall behind me. Everything pulled off me, the headset, the
audio of the video all pulled away. The garbage can

(21:06):
was on the right, a small one that went bes
way thither, and it sounded like I thought, well, I
did fall, and a distance of about three feet, my
butt hits the floor and my head hits the wall.
And this is what happened in real time, Dave hit it.
Let's continue now with Mark and Missouri and many others
if the line becomes available eight sixty six six four

(21:27):
seven seven three three seven and Mark and Missouri, Welcome
to the Bill.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
Cunningham, Thanks Bill. That's President Trump of the obvious.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
The other day, remind Mark, are you still there?

Speaker 4 (21:39):
Yes, sir Bill? Hello, Hello.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
So at that point, having heard the tumble, Danny Glees
and my producer went through a break, thinking, Okay, what
the hell happened? It sounded like I'm falling, which I did,
but I felt because I was reaching from my left hand.
Unbeknownst to me, the chair moved and when I sat
down there was no seat to sit in, and I
hit the floor and my head went backwards and I

(22:04):
hit the wall. And so that was the whole deal.
When I got back, I described exactly what it transpired,
and we went on with the show. And I blame
Mark for Missouri. As an American, I never take responsibility
for any of my behaviors. I blame others, of course,
and so I blame Austin Elmo, who moved the telepad
from where it should have been right here where I

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don't have to stand up to reach to pull it in,
and the rest is history. The inquir has done a
story on it. Scott wartman of the Inquiry, called and
unbeknownst to me, as I'm in show prep. As you know,
I spent two hours of show prep for every one
hour on the air this morning, starting about nine thirty
ten o'clock. I was in show prep, getting ready for
guests and topics things like that. So I didn't listen.

(22:45):
But Sloaney seemed to imply or state that I was dead,
and at some point he'll be accurate, but not now,
not today. And I'm in good hands for doctor Dean
Cariacus at the christ Hospital, and the rest is history.
I'm well, I'm fine and hopefully and because of the
kindness of DJ Hodge and Scott Ryan Heard and Tony Bender,

(23:07):
it appears I'm going to be with you for the
next four years. Nonetheless, I had a conversation with the
President last August or September in which I told the
Trump so that if you get elected, I will be
here throughout your term in order to protect your right
flank in the Northwest territories. He said, great. So I
signed recently a four year contract extension which will keep

(23:28):
me here until believe it or not, twenty twenty nine,
twenty twenty nine. Assuming things go well, I can get
a seat belt on my seat and maybe some cushions
around me, and I'll be fine. But I'm good. I'm good.
I have a vision, I have a voice, I have
an outlet. I have thousands and millions of people that
enjoy hearing what I have to say. I like speaking
with you. I run into people on airplanes. When I

(23:50):
went back and forth to Naples, Florida, and I ran
into a darling woman, a great woman, a real estate
agent with sipsy client named Tiffany and and I had
a brief conversation with her. She's like the top agent
in Warren County. And she thanked me for being on
the air, and I thanked her for listening. So I
have no plans are going anywhere in the next three
to four years. I'm not going to the Trump administration.

(24:13):
I'm not going to be the US Attorney for the
Southern District. I'm not going to take some other appointment.
I found something in my life I do that I
really enjoy doing that. It's an outlet for my opinions.
Of which I have many and try to have some fun,
some humor, and I often say and that. I know
my wife doesn't like me saying this, But what I
do is not terribly important because I think a lot
of people do it. I think I do it well.

(24:35):
But it's not like surgery. It's not like dental work.
It's not like having your heart operator on. It's not cancer,
heart disease, and so I enjoy doing it. iHeartMedia is
about the sixth or seventh employer that's owned this radio frequency,
and we move on. So when I do national stuff,
I'm often asked how long will radio be around? I said,
it'll be around as long as people talk. Communication began

(24:57):
in caves and it's not going to end up on
Mars or Alpha Centauri's. It's part of what we are.
Most of the media is dying, whether it's newspapers or television.
And serious trouble. The Oscars I didn't watch. I understand
it was terrible, but nonetheless I couldn't name one movie.
The only movie I could name was Ronald Reagan, and
I watched that with some friends of mine. I thought
it was great. However, they weren't DEI compliant and you thought,

(25:22):
what does that mean. Well, last year the Academy passed
a rule of ordinance that said, if you're not DEI compliant,
that's your picture will not be your movie. You will
not be considered for awards. You have to have a
statement issue to how many gay folks you've been hired,
how many black, how many Hispanic, and he disabled, et cetera.
And because the producers of Ronald Reagan the movie Fortieth

(25:43):
President weren't DEI complied, they didn't want to play the game,
they weren't considered for awards. That's how ridiculous things have gotten.
But nonetheless, I'm doing well. Hope to keep going. I
don't feel much different now than I felt thirty five
years ago. There's some days I got up a little cranky,
but mainly.

Speaker 5 (26:01):
I do not.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
So let's continue. I am alive, I am well, And
we move on a couple issues. One, I have the
story that will not be reported in the mainstream media
because it is so much good news for Donald Trump.
We'll get into the Zelensky thing in a little bit.
But Zelensky came there, and I had on Scott Jennings
last the excerpt of Scott Jennings, who may be the

(26:23):
next Senator from Kentucky's with CNN and Scott Jennings made
the point all that Zelensky had to do is number one,
show up wearing a tie. Number two, smile a lot.
Number three, Thank Americans for doing a business deal with
the Ukraine, which is indirect security.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Right.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
We put at risk billions of dollars with thousands of engineers,
et cetera. That's kind of like an American presence. Number
four signed the deal, have a nice lunch, get on
the plane and go home. But because the Democrats gin
him up, like Senator Murphy and others, issue the issue
tweets two hours before they get together with Trump in
which they said that Zelenski should not take the deal.

(27:03):
Unbeknownst to you maybe and to many, that Zelenski met
with his Democratic friends in the Senate starting at nine
o'clock in the morning to prepare for the meeting, and
the Democrats are telling Zelensky, don't take the deal. You
need more security guarantees. The only guarantees in life you
get is from Midas Muffler. And so he was going

(27:23):
into the meeting thinking I can probably get something different
than what I'm being told he wanted American soldiers on
the front line fighting Russian soldiers and killing them in
Ukraine along with other NATO countries. Are you kidding me? No,
shouldn't do that. So the eighty percent of the meeting
went very well until jd Vance brought up the issue
of diplomacy having to work. Now, it's obvious one thing

(27:47):
that Zelensky does not want to seize fire. What he
wants to do is win the war. He wants to
defeat the Russian bear, bring them to task. I'm watching
a general on Saturday or Sunday talking about the preparation
for this get together. The speech Tuesday night Tomorrow night
with the Trumpster, he made the point that two hundred
and fifty thousand artillery shells are manufactured every month by

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Russia and along with eighty thousand drones and supersonic missiles,
some of which are from North Korea and from Iran.
And the question was asked, is there any military person, diplomat,
or leader in the world who thinks that the Ukrainian Army,
after more than three years of fighting, can actually defeat
the entire Russian army and kick them out of the Ukraine.

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The answer is no, that's not going to happen. So
the issue is going to be how much more Ukrainian
territory will be taken or Secondly, can there be a ceasefire?
Zelinski said, guess there will not be a cease fire. No,
he wants to keep on fighting. Why would we do
a deal with someone who's going to put thousands of
American lives at risk and these mining operations get these

(28:52):
exotic minerals. It's not going to happen. So the Trumpster
was exactly correct in doing what he did. Secondly, this
story this morning, Zelensky shuts down calls for immediate ceasefire.
If I'm Zelensky, looking at my situation, which my country
is in ruins, one million Ukrainians have been dyed or maimed,

(29:14):
there's no reasonable expectation of a military victory. What I
want to do is suit for peace, a cease fire.
He says, quote, we will not accept the cease fire,
And he told the Financial Times quote if you don't
have an end of the war, and you don't have
security guarantees, no one is able to control a cease fire.
So without the United States military being involved, there will

(29:37):
not be a cease fire. We guess what do you
want your sons and daughters killing on the battlefields of
the Ukraine. Are you kidding me? Absolutely not. We've done
enough of that with terrible success in Iraq, in Vietnam
and Afghanistan. Doesn't work. But Czelenski lives in some fantasyland,
and uh, I guess the war continues. He's now willing
to accept the original deal. But then he was told

(30:00):
recently by Scott Bezic and others, the Treasury Secretary that
you know what, the deals off the table, to hell
with you go ahead, fight, go ahead and defeat the
Russian army. Have at it. And because he wants the
US military to stand shoulder to shoulder with Ukrainian soldiers
who are brave and courageous and fighting. It's terrible what's
happening there. Surely Vladimir Putin is a mass murderer, warns

(30:24):
out for his arrest. Ukrainian people have fought like warrior poets.
They fought like William of Wallas in Braveheart. For God's sakes.
Eventually Scott's won their independence, but it took another few
hundred years. And I would hope that Putin will say,
you know what, Vladimir, you're right, I'm wrong, and Zelenski,
We're going to do it your way. We're gonna withdraw

(30:45):
all the Russian soldiers out of a part of the
Ukraine that we consider to be part of Russia. The
Russian media kind of compares this to our Civil War
in which democrats. Of course, democrats in the South wanted
to keep slave avery, and so they said, okay, we're
going to get out of the Union, and Abraham Lincoln said, no,
you're not, Yes you are. And then what did we do.

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We went to war with the South and we keep
our country together. From the Russian perspective, which is wrong.
They believe Ukraine is part of Russia and they want
their country back. So much like the Union fought the
democrats in the Confederacy wanted to keep slavery, Vladimir Putin
is saying, that's part of our country, we want it back,

(31:29):
and it's not going to happen. I can't conceive it
at occurring. And so the deal was struck and that's
the end of that. Now, lastly, before we go any further,
I began by saying, by the way, I'm alive and well,
Scott Sloan's playing some games, which I understand because I've
played similar games. But nonetheless, headline Honda moving civic production

(31:51):
from Mexico to Indiana and response to Trump's tariffs. Now
this is a big deal right now. Toyotas are made
in and around Louisville, Kentucky. Mercedes are made in South Carolina.
Honda there was a large factory in and around Allen County.
I suppose there still is. But how about this, fans
of Honda Cars, prepared to start your engines. The Japanese

(32:13):
manufacturer Ding will produce this next generation civic hybrid in
the state of Indiana rather than Mexico to sidestep tariffs
on its top selling car models. Is that a big story? Absolutely?
Tens of thousands of jobs directly indirectly are coming to
Indiana away from Guadalajara. But the media because that has

(32:35):
such good news for Donald Trump. The tariffs are working.
We're not going any media coverage, but you get it
right here. Let's continue after one o'clock. Is the real
story behind the scenes of how Pete Rose's shall we say,
forgiveness for his felony conviction on income tax evasion how
it all began with Wayne Allen Root and Moore and

(32:55):
later on more discussions of this and so much. But
I'm live and well, I'm doing well. I thought this
was Trump and Jade Vance's finest moments Friday, and the
Democrats underminded to begin with because they don't want Trump
to have any success. Any success by Donald Trump thwarts
the notion of a Roague presidency. Didn't know what he's doing.

(33:16):
But we know what's going on because Trump's approval ratings
are gone up. We the American people rely upon podcasts
and talk radio to find out what's going on. Let's
continue with more Bill Cunningham, The Great American Live at
the Home of Your Reds and more News Radio seven
hundred you old of you, My Billy Cunningham, the Great American.

(33:42):
The Sage at Las Vegas is Wayne Allen Root Root
for America dot Com and Wayne, welcome again and the
Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, let's talk a
little bit about Peter Edward Rose. Then we're going to
talk about what happened on Friday was Zelensky, and also
talk about what's happening in Israel, which all hell's about
to break loose. But first of all, the Commissioner of
Baseball has said that he's considering lifting the lifetime ban

(34:05):
on Pete Rose. Of course, it's only valid while you're alive.
Pete Rose died. The lifetime ban is over because his
life is over. However, we have the hall of fame issue,
which is there's no legitimate hall of fame. The new
Reds manager is a great guy named Tito Francona, who
literally was a teammate of Pete Rose is and a
good friend of his, who said, there is no hall

(34:26):
of fame without Peter Redward Rose. And it begins, well,
I guess the lifetime ban ending. Of course, his life
is ended. That's already ended. But allow the opportunity to
get into the hall of fame. Give me what happened
about three or four months ago with you and the
president that started the ball rolling.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
Well, you know, I asked for a pardon for Pete
Rose because in my opinion, I mean I had a plan,
a plan together Bill, as you know, and the plan
was that if I could get President Trump to pardon
Pete Rose. And a lot of people still don't know
what he's partnering him for They're like, is he partnering
him for gambling? No, Pete Rose was never convicted of
any gambling crimes. He was only convicted of tax evasion

(35:06):
and spent a little bit of time in a federal
prison for income tax evasion. And if President Trump could
pardon him for that one crime of his life, I
felt it would get the ball rolling to the American
public to notice it, the American public to get mad
at the injustice that he's not in the Hall of Fame,
because I think most people think that way, most baseball fans,

(35:27):
most sports fans think that way, and this would remind
everyone and stir the hornet's nest and get Major League
Baseball completely embarrassed and get the commissioner to to you know,
get on the bandwagon to get Pete back in the
Hall of Fame and sports writers as well.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
So that was my plan.

Speaker 5 (35:43):
So I sent when President Trump, but you know, got
into office, I sent him a which was only a
month ago. I sent him a letter written by me
as to all the reasons why I thought it would
make sense to pardon Pete Rose. And on two weeks
went by and I didn't hear from him. I sent
the letter again to just to remind her. Want to
make sure the President reads this, and I got confirmation
from his assistants to right next to him. Yes, it's

(36:04):
in his hands. And then Friday night. It's Friday night.
Two days ago, I was sitting in Las Vegas having
dinner and one of my buddies, his name is Colonel Joe.
He's a former military intelligence colonel in the United States Army,
and he texted me while I'm sitting in Las Vegas
having dinner with my wife, Cindy, and he lives in
Ohio and he's a UK Columbus, I believe, and he's

(36:25):
a huge fan of mine and a huge fan of
Pete Rose. And he said, Wayne, you should remind the
President that it's spring training and in one month the
season starts opening day, and he should pardon Pete Rose.
Perfect time. So that stirred the pot right there for me.
And in the middle of dinner, I said, hold on, honey,
because she hates when I texted the middle of dinner.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
But I stopped the text at the President.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
I've got his personal cell phone, President Trump's, I texted
him and.

Speaker 5 (36:52):
I told him just to remind her, look at that letter.
You really should pardon Pete Rose. Spring training has begun.
It's perfect timing, and or you could wait a month
per opening day of the Cincinnati Reds. But Trump, but
you need to pardon Pete Rose. The American people will
love you for it, and he will get into the
Hall of Fame. That will start the pull rolling to
get him in the rightful place he belongs. And literally

(37:14):
five minutes after I sent the text, he fires off
a text on he fires off a post on truth
Social and basically says, I'm going to be pardoning Pete
Rose in Major League Baseball should be ashamed themselves. He
beloves to the Hall of Fame. So I feel like
I did you know in Judi's it's cool a mitzvah,
A good thing where you get nothing in return. Right,
you know, I knew Pete Rose personally in his later

(37:34):
years in Las Vegas. There's nothing in this for me.
I'm not making any money on it. All I feel
like I did is I changed the guy's legacy, and
I changed you know, the man is in heaven and
I changed his legacy. And I hope he's looking down
smiley and saying, man, I'm glad I've met waying Root
in the last years of my life.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
You know, Pete Rose said a year or two, three
years ago, I'm going to be in the Hall of
Fame after I'm dead. But what good does that do me,
because I'll be dead. But nonetheless, it'll do the fans,
it'll do baseball, it'll do justice, it'll do what's right.
The Reds have a big day for Pete Rose on
May fourteenth. The Reds are going to wear the number
fourteen on their jerseys. Maybe against the desires of the Commissioner,

(38:15):
but the Reds community. Of course. You know, I've known
Pete since nineteen sixty three, and we raised money together,
played basketball together, played golf together, played baseball together. Of course,
all stars, et cetera known him for a very long time.
Any day with Pete Rose was a great day, and
just a wonderful personality, wonderful guy that had a little
bit of a gambling problem. But we all got issues,

(38:35):
we all got problems, and the irs went after.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Bill.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
Let me till you down here. Two things to say
real quick. Number one, you mentioned what good is it
once you're dead? Well, first of all, it's good for
his family. I think his family will just love it.
So you know, his children and his wife, everybody will
love it. But second of all, and of course I
think he'll be looking down from Eavan. I think we
all believe in Evans, so he'll be there seeing it.
So it is good.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
But here's the thing.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
You know, Major League Baseball talk about the hypocrites of
all time.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
When P.

Speaker 5 (39:05):
Crose did it the gambling right, gambling was like, oh
my god, nobody's allowed to get the gambling table. Today
baseball is in bed with every casino and sportsbook possible
in the world to make money. Every sports league is
they're all making money on gambling by the hundreds of millions.
Nobody has a right to talk about gambling anymore. And

(39:28):
Pete Rose never bet against himself. He bet on himself,
which I see nothing wrong at all. It means you
want to win. It means you're betting on yourself. Nothing
wrong with that at all.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Bro the IRS wanted a scalp and after Pete Rose
fall from grace in August of nineteen eighty nine, it
was a IRS and Department of Justice launched an investigation
and found they didn't pay all of his taxes. Now
you would think a man that was what forty five,
forty six years old, had paid tens of millions in
taxes should be given. Okay, we caught you, Pete, you

(40:02):
owe this in Texas. How do you plan on paying
it off? He could have paid it off, but no, no,
they wanted to send him to federal prison in Illinois.
And Pete and I exchanged letters back and forth. I
was with him in the halfway house. He and they
didn't let him go after four to five months. They
had to do another six months and a half way house.
And I'm thinking, this is ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (40:21):
And the I R. S.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Department Justice wanted to exact a pound of flesh from him,
and to visit him and to be with him during
the pursuit of Ty Cobb in eighty four and eighty five,
to be with him and doing shows with him when
he was retch manager, to exchange letters with him in
federal prison, to visit him in a halfway house, and
then to watch him just fall completely down as far

(40:44):
as you can go, but then to arise and do
so much good for so many good people. And after
thirty some years, it's time, forty years, it's time to say, okay,
judge him and I think the same thing's true about
Barry Bonds or Roger Clem or others. Judge them by
what they do between the lines, not by the peccadillos

(41:05):
in their life. And all of us have difficulties, and
it would help Pete and his family, it would help
the fans, and it would designate that gambling isn't some
scourge that cannot be overcome. He goes right now, major
League Baseball benefits from gambling. That's what Pete Rose did.
He gambled, and now baseball itself is benefiting from it.

Speaker 5 (41:25):
Well, you know, it will be ironic if Pete looks
down from heaven and he sees I'm in the Hall
of Fame, Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame, and
gambling is legal, and baseball's in bed with him and
the irs is about to be eliminated by Donald Trump.
I think those are three great things that will make
Pete Rose's day in heaven. And by the way, they'll
make my day, and I'm sure they'll make your days.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
Bill.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Yeah, all right, let's move on to your column, The
criminal Case against Barack Obama, Part two, And this goes
into the idea that if you're Obama, if you're Biden,
if your Hillary Clon or Bill Clinton, if you get
a Texas out pass out from the FBI, you're part
of the group. You're part of the clan. However, tell

(42:08):
the story what we now know about Barack Husain Obama
when he was in office, what he did to Donald Trump.

Speaker 5 (42:15):
Well, I mean, I think you've got to be blind, deaf,
really dumb, you know, or part of the enemy, the
domestic terrorists of America, which is basically at this point
the communist Democrat Party. I mean, they hate our country.
You know, the open border was the intentional destruction of
our country. President Trump declared victory today. The border is conquered,
the border is secure, there's nobody coming over it anymore.

(42:37):
That's great. But I think the next step is he
really ought to try with cash battel in seams of
FBI agents and the DOJ. It's time to start arresting
the people that intentionally open that border and purposely welcomed
in millions and millions of criminals and terrorists and murderers
and rapists and carjackers and thugs of all kinds. Home invaders,

(42:57):
I mean, drug dealers, drug trap for gers, pedophiles. Look
at and disease all the terrible things that came in
this country. Man, they did it a purpose, just to
win elections. It's disgusting. It's time to start not persecuting.
That's what Democrats do prosecuting. They persecute, We prosecute for
real crimes. So I think all that should start happening.

(43:20):
And as far as Obama look, it's obvious to me
he ran the last four years. This is the third
term of Obama. I thought Hillary would be the third
term of Obama if she won. But of course Trump
delayed that inevitable disaster and pulled the upset of all time.
But then when they were able to come back and
steal it in twenty twenty, and you and I both
know they stole it. Come on, everything about it is ridiculous.
The election was stolen in twenty twenty, and their objective

(43:43):
was to let so many people in the country over
the next four years that Trump could never win and
Republicans would never win again. And then their second objective
was to make sure that Trump could never run again.
You know, First they wanted to fill the country with
illegals so if he did run or anyone else ran,
then no Republican would ever elected again. But they knew
the only guy who would make a too big to

(44:03):
rig would be Trump, So they set out to indict him,
and they set out to demonize him and destroy him.
And I think they was Biden and Kamala and people
like that, but Obama in charge. I believe this whole
country has been run by Barack Obama in his mansion
in Washington, just literally steps from the White House. He's
the only president who ever settled after his presidency was over,

(44:26):
settled in Washington, d Se, right down the streets from
the White House. And we all know the US government
spied on candidate Donald Trump and the Trump campaign and
then eventually the Trump presidency. And you'd have to be
a moron to not understand or believe that President Obama
ordered that's buying. He's the President of the United States,
and I consider him a smart guy. I'm with a

(44:46):
compliment Obama. He's a sharp guy. He's a smart guy.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Trust me.

Speaker 5 (44:50):
He was no Ulysses's grant. The world wasn't doing bad
things underneath him without him knowing. Obama knew everything going on.
He either move to the spying, signed off on it,
or he's the one that ordered it, which is a crime.
Maybe you've heard of Watergate, right, it's a crime. You
can't spy on your opposition, let alone to president of

(45:11):
the United States. So nobody ordered the spying on a
presidential candidate or a presidential campaign without getting approval and
permission from Barack Obama. And I believe he's going to
have signed off on it, or certainly probably most likely
he was aldo gave the order to spy on Trump.
We found that recent day as the FBI director James Komy,

(45:31):
separate from that, was running a secret undercover operation. He
placed two female agents inside the Trump presidential campaign to
travel with Trump and his staff. And again the odds
are high it was ordered and orchestrated and coordinated by
the President of United States, Barack Obama. They didn't do
that without his permission. Again, think Watergate, and the average

(45:54):
person doesn't understand, you know, the importance. Why was all
this happening? Well, first of all, of course, you know,
if you spy on somebody, if you listen to their
phone calls, if you know everything they're doing, and you
could catch them in a crime, you could ruin their
life and then number two, if they're running for president
and you're listening to everything they do and spying on them,
you give that information to Hillary and she knows what

(46:16):
Trump's gonna do before Trump does it, and she beats Trump.
Which is your way of keeping Obama and Biden and
Hillary from going to prison for their crimes. They were
scared that if Trump was elected, they'dn't all go to prison.
What was that statement Hillary made? If he's elected, We're
all gonna hang. She said that till they all knew that,

(46:37):
So then what else was there? Hillary gave a large
portion of America's plutonium stock to a state owned Russian
company in return for one hundred and forty five million
dollar donation. I call it a bribe to.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
The Clintons Foundation.

Speaker 5 (46:48):
You don't think Obama got a piece to that bribe.
You think he let it secretary stake, like one hundred
and forty five million and he got nothing. I mean,
you know this man, Obama committed so many crimes series
of stage do not extort money from foreign enemies of
America without the President knowing it or approving it, or
most likely giving the order. Then we got Biden and

(47:08):
a son hunter extorting world leaders in Ukraine and China
for millions of dollars, maybe hundreds of millions. You don't
think Obama got a piece of all that money. You
don't think he knew his vice president and his son
was extorting world leaders and Russian collusion wants Trump won.
You don't think that was Obama's plan to keep him
and Hillary and Biden from hanging by making sure that,

(47:29):
you know, Trump was completely distracted and diverted from going
after them because it was too busy trying to keep
himself out of prison and keep himself from being impeached.
The January sixth scam, same thing, you know, Ditto, rinse
and repeat, another plot devised by Obama to destroy Trump's
reputation and make sure Trump was too distracted to ever
worry about running for office again. The Trump impeachments, I

(47:53):
think that was Obama. The raid on mar A Lago,
I think that was Obama. I think all the problems,
the indicts against Trump, the civil cases in New York,
it to me, it's clear as day it was all ordered,
orchestrated and coordinated by Obama. And so all you need
is the Cashpatel is now in charge. Of all the
resources of the FBI, stick your best people, teams of

(48:16):
hundreds of agents, and twenty four hours a day. You know,
delve into everything I just said, and you will find
it's all roads lead to Obama. And then show America
that you can indict a former president and it's not persecution.
It's prosecution for real crimes, as opposed to what Democrats
did from Trump, which was persecution for crimes that never existed.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Oh, Watergate, supposedly it's the greatest crime a president ever committed.
It was the bugging of DNC headquarters by Howard Hunt
and others operatives not known by Richard Nixon at the
time the cover up started, and all of a sudden,
it was the worst crime in the world. Compare that
to what Obama has done, Compared that to what Clinton

(48:58):
has done, both of them. Compared to what Joe Biden
and Hunter Biden has done. But Richard next thing, there
was a parking ticket. And now we're talking about felonies.
And I'm anxious to have cash Ptel make public the
fact that FBI Director James Comy, with the acquiescence of
President Obama, had undercover operations conducted against against President to

(49:20):
b Donald Trump in order to assist the campaign of
Hillary Clinton. I also would note that that Mitch McConnell
in Kentucky's worth about eighty million dollars, that Elizabeth Warren's
worth sixty seven million, Chuck Schumer's worth seventy five million,
James Jamie Raskin's twenty million, Game Jefferis nine million, Maxine

(49:40):
Waters ten million. These are all except for McConnell. Democrats
using government contracts and also consultancy fees washed through five
O one, C threes and C fours to pay themselves
big money. But we could go on and on. But
Wayne Allen Root, we got to run up against the
clock a Root for America dot com. You're the best.

(50:00):
There is great column about Obama looking forward to cash
Patal doing his job. I'm looking forward to Pete Hexset
doing his job. I look forward to to all the
new cabinet officials doing their job and let the chips
far where they make.

Speaker 5 (50:15):
Chelsey Gabber another great one.

Speaker 6 (50:17):
Good listen, just.

Speaker 5 (50:19):
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(50:42):
So check it out root for America dot com. Thank you, Bill,
God bless you. You are a great America.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
God bless you. Also, that's the man that put the
bug in the ear of the president to pardon Peter
Edward Rose I and I've tweeted on this. I don't
know if it's a waste of time because the man's
dead and a lifetime ban ends when your life is over.
But nonetheless, we'll see what happens. Bill Cunningham with you

(51:09):
every afternoon on news radio seven hundred WULW. Let's continue
now with Mark and Missouri and many others if a
line becomes available eight six six six four seven, seven
three three seven and Mark and Missouri. Welcome to the
Bill Cunningham.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
Thanks Bill. That's President Trump of the obvious the other day.

Speaker 5 (51:28):
Mark.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Are you still there, yes.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
Sir Bill.

Speaker 6 (51:32):
Hello, Hey Bill, New treatments for joint pain are here.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
Oh hello, Hello, Quiet and I'm broadcasting.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
Craig.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
Did Scott Sloan make a fool of himself?

Speaker 3 (51:56):
Or what?

Speaker 1 (51:56):
Of course you're alive? All the reports of your demise
or premature correct. All I can say segment is, I've
shown you how it would have happened. Now you believe
how would happened? And all shall we say? Get we
got to get seat belts in hair or med marty
or something to get you a special chair. Also, I
need anybody got a big old chair named Willie. Here's

(52:21):
the headline of the inchoir. What does it say?

Speaker 3 (52:24):
No?

Speaker 1 (52:25):
Bill Cunningham did not die on the on the air
Sloane started this thing. I hate it when talks kill
off other talk shows. And then and then somebody special
called you right? Correct? Who about?

Speaker 7 (52:40):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (52:40):
Nine am? The phone rings? Yeah, it's a government wipe.
It's not the Trumpster. No, I did hear from the
Ministrasky can't say? What about JD Vance? You're getting warm?
The King of Middletown get a call as from Governor
Mike Dwaine. He says, are you a lie? And I said, well,

(53:02):
I think so. Wait a minut and hang on, let
me check my pulse. And he said my chief of staff.
I'm coming coming out of a breakfast meeting in Youngstown.
Now I'm of the Frozen Penguins. Yes, And he says,
my chief of staff said that you're dead. I said, Governor,
you know no, I did take an unfortunate fall because
of Elmo Austin. Elmo put the telepad too far away.

(53:25):
I couldn't reach it. So I'm reaching four feet. I
think it has something. I think the Democrats, well, I
think you wanted to you want to the pain of
the first Ladies, and you wanted to pel Pelvit.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
Has an entertainment feature. That's all it was.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
It was just we were going to entertain the truck.
And he is dead, isn't he Yeah? I killed him
off several times at least. And uh So I'm reaching
four feet and my chair and anst to me left
its position, and so I'm I'm standing up. I put
the mark from Missouri on there. I sit down. Go
boom boom No chair. My head hits the wall behind me.

(54:03):
I become disconnected, discombobulated. Danny boy Danny boy A Gleason
runs in there. You okay, thought I had a heart attack,
I said, carry out has promised me I wouldn't have
a heart attack. So I said, what happened? I told him?
What have Calvalve?

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Al right?

Speaker 1 (54:15):
Cal Valve is still functioning. I don't eat any more
Hamburgers or Filet Mignon's and respect for the cow community.
I don't want to offend thew No, no wonder see
it's already started. Now see that your your fall is
starting to affect your mind. You don't want any Hamburgers anymore,
SOLNEI said, I'm suffering from PTSD. I'm supporting now, Kamala
Harris a little PTSD, little CTE what you don't even

(54:38):
know what that means? You can't spell it. But anyway,
I'm fine. I took a fall by mistake. I didn't
intend it, and then when I got back on the air,
I explained it what happened. But that wasn't good enough
for Scott Sloan. A talk show should not kill off
other talk show hosts. Do you agree? Correct ossly around here? No,
we don't have too many, mind we don't have too
many mineries. We don't have any mone leaguers like the Reds.

(55:01):
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(55:22):
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the Cubs yesterday. That's the Cub's first spring loss. How
about that? How about this? I have a texter from
the Governor just said I was prepared to issue an
order to have the flags flown at half mast. Now

(55:45):
that now that would be aff By the way it
will happen, I will die, correct, I think all we
all yes, when it does happen, I have to have
that kind of relationship with the Governor that the flags
are at half staff. That will drive the Liberals friggin' nuts.
Nicolodolo starts tonight for the Red Legs. They take on
the brew Crew seven thirty five after sports talking that

(56:07):
guy Lance with the RNL carriers inside pitch, what about
the red segment the Reds? I did I just mentioned him.
You got to say more. Andrew Abbott has started his
way back, started throwing live BP yesterday. Spencer Steer at
troumblesome shoulder is a mystery. Did he have surgery a

(56:27):
quarter zone shot, by the way, which is very painful.
No inactivity for at least a couple of days. So
Spencer Steer is way behind now. Did he have surgery
in the offseason and it was just sore and I
know they can't figure it out. Where's Doc Hollywood, Let's
go get him involved. Where's cremp check? Bengals up. They
brought to you by Good Spirits, Winding Tobacco and Party
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(56:50):
guard Alex Kappa Oh started fifty games during three years
with a team that moves saves eight million dollars on
the cap te Bengals corner cornerback Mike Hilton t posting
on X Today, said new opportunities always present themselves. Who
said that Mike Hilton look like he's the franchise tag

(57:13):
deadline is tomorrow. He's got the hotel. National Football League
and Mike Hilton have the hotels to fall back on
free agency in the National Football League one week from today.
Mean the clock is ticking with Duke Tobin and Fifth
Third Bank the only bank you'll ever need a bank

(57:33):
with the banks? What are we going to do? Seg Man. Well,
gotta hopefully they get a deal deal by next Monday
or t or T. Higgins is no, he's here, but
maybe for twenty why they might franchise tag him again?
Then what twenty six twenty six mil not bad? Is
that a problem?

Speaker 3 (57:51):
I do that?

Speaker 1 (57:52):
You can? You can tag me for a lot less
than that. Amen to that. Uh, let's see.

Speaker 5 (57:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
College basketball, first round of the Men's Horizon League Turney
tomorrow night, NKU and Detroit Mercy get the latest on
Xavier big win over Creighton Willie Saturday eighty two sixty
Sean Miller at seven on fifty five k rc FC
Cincinnati will take on T Grace u A n L
tomorrow night out of the Mexican League. What's it in

(58:19):
the round of sixteen in the Champions Cup Tournament. The
T Grace club just fired their their head coach last night.
Not good because I guess he wasn't getting along with
the player.

Speaker 3 (58:31):
So the FC.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
They play in the MLS also playing this other thing. Right,
they're playing like two different they'll play they'll play like
tomorrow night and then they have a match in the
MLS on Saturday. What about what about? What about Ovechkin?
Did you ever think that record would be broken?

Speaker 6 (58:48):
No?

Speaker 1 (58:49):
No, it's an eight ninety six?

Speaker 5 (58:50):
Is that something like that?

Speaker 1 (58:52):
It's he's going to do it. Yeah, he's a Russian,
but he's become an American segment, he's an American tennis.
Ticket packages for the newly transformed Cincinnati Open go on
sale to the public this Wednesday, March the fifth, at
ten am. The Attorney expands to two weeks this year,
running August fifth through the eighteenth. And you better get

(59:14):
your tickets soon because last year's event sold out in
two and a half days. Well, I gotta call it.
John Barren, see what's going on? So it's unbelievable. And
Jimmy Johnson, former Cowboys coach, super Bowl champion, he was
a NASCAR too, wasn't he. Well yeah, but the other
one is we're retiring from NFL on Fox. That's it.

(59:34):
So that opens a spot on that TV show for
Chris collins Worth or maybe Austin Elmo. Also, Willie, we
say congratulations to Grand Counties Ethan Davis and Riters and
Ryle's Ryder Trumbull both individual state titles in Kentucky and wrestling.
Let's get him in. Davis went forty to zero in

(59:55):
his final high school season at Grand County, Trumbull fifty
and two in wrestling. That's pretty good. It's got a
tratulations to those gentlemen. I got a grade school championship
team here in Westchester wants to come in and be
recognized segment. I'll give you this number. Bring them on
and see what you can do. I'd like to highlight

(01:00:15):
the successive Young America. We were hoping that Greensburg the
Lady Pirates would win over the weekend, Willie, but they
lost in the championship game. So they finished twenty seven
and one. How about that. They had a heck of
a season in Greensburg. How about Cuomo coming back. It's
going to become the mayor of New York City. Why
don't they bring Giuliani back? Then, what's he going to

(01:00:37):
run for? He's got problems. And then, since you're back
from the Southern Command, looking good except for your fall
from last night, which a lot of people are thinking
there might be something upstairs that's kind of well. I
got a little PTSD, tell a little DEEI got everything.
Now I've become a Democrat since I hit my head.
What about Friday Oval Office, Trumpster Vance, wonderful Zelensky. All

(01:01:03):
he had to do was segment was walking. That was action,
walk in, wear a suit, Thank everyone, where's the deal,
Let's sign the deal, Let's go get lunch. Not Zelensky.
He wanted to make a big shot, big deal because
the Democrats told him two to three hours at a
time not to accept the deal because there's not enough
security guarantees. He wants the hundred and second, hundred and

(01:01:26):
first and eighty second Airborne to be in Ukraine killing Russians.
Is that a good move? Segment put American Marines Ukraine?
We got That's what k was. In no way the
Trumpster is going to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
I say it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
What he laid down, the law, he did the Trumpster
he's an American. And what Trump did and what Jade
Vance did was one of their proudest moments to say
no to the radical left, to the Democrats who don't
want a deal because it makes Trump look good, and
to also the neocons like your good friend Liz Cheney
and Dick cha all of whom that want to collapse

(01:02:02):
House foreign policy before Trump got involved a meal now
about things that they are sending trollions of dollars over
there like it was nothing, and Zelensky kept half the money. Anyway,
It's got bank accounts all over Europe. It's enough, segment,
It's enough. Will you be listening watching tomorrow night? The
president supposedly it's not a State of Union address. It's
kind of like to say, what's the deal with that?

(01:02:23):
It's like a confab, kind of like MLS. They got
a confab every now and then. I guess I'll have
on one side of my TV, I'll have the president
on the other side. It'll be FC Cincinnati. How does
Jimmy Johnson have such a successful career in UH coaching
the Cowboys and then NASCAR and he's retired now from both.

(01:02:44):
What's he going to do well? I mean, they race
usually on Sunday, But what about change it on? What
about Gene Hackman? We got another issue there about that.
That's a that's a I thought it was carbon monoxide.
But you see him recently didn't look good. No, he didn't.
I mean one dog is dead, the two others are living.
What does that mean? Well, I don't know. Did they

(01:03:05):
get did they get broken into toxic college? You indicated no, Uh,
it wasn't a gas death. It wasn't like natural gas
or a leak. So you have a ninety five year
old dead, sixty five year old woman dead, and ren
ten ten is dead, dead, dead and dead. I don't know.
Is that a coincidence? Then that's a coincidence or is
that sabotage. It's a Hollywood sabotage, sabotage like Man seven,

(01:03:27):
Like around here. We got mysteries everywhere, that's for sure.
Sega is out it in sports, yeah, get me ready
for more. March Madness starts. I guess the tournament start
next week? Well, Horizon League starts tomorrow, and then next well,
then this is the final regular season of the weekend Willie,
and then next weekend tournament. You see X. Everybody plays Kentucky,

(01:03:49):
well Kentucky. Auburn ripped up Kentucky, but nobody saw the game,
and the world was going nuts. But I understand that
the one of the main trucks of CBS Sports caught
on fire at rapp Arena. That's why they couldn't do
the game or ESPN or something. Sabotage maybe so sabotage

(01:04:11):
all I can say segment. We live in special times.
But Democrats in Washington will not work with Donald Trump.
I think in a better man of the country. Who
did it? Leutmann Doomba, Leutmann dounebah seven babotage, sabotage from
Stalog seventeen, the movie NBC ABC taking care of CBS.

(01:04:31):
I don't know what happened. I'm saying we got problems.
Everywhere I look. I see nothing but problems, that's for sure.
But the reports of my death are premature slightly. How
about Scott Wartman did a story in the inquir about
me not dying. It's the story when I don't do something,
God forbid if I do. I don't know. Willie was
just you know what, what's the guy's name, the deint Man,

(01:04:54):
what's his name? Leutmann Doombas, sabotamatage. That was the key
to give to the resistance, correct and democratic held parts
of France. Deut Man, loom Barlumn dupe bar sabotage. I
think that cuts into sabotage. I don't know. It was

(01:05:15):
once that word was expressed, it was time and then
for sabotage to take place all over France before June sixth,
nineteen forty four. Segment is going to be back physically here,
but wherever I am, that's where I am correct, and
I want to think. iHeartMedia for building me a luxurious
studio without seat problems in Naples, Florida. We think, of

(01:05:37):
course DJ Hodge should maybe Jeff Wiler come up and
leave you a seat belt. Eggs like, need a seat
belt for your chair, segment, get me out of the suite. Report,
I need med mart Willie and honor of you still alive,
and watch out for that chair. From now on we
leave you with the immortal words of the stud report.

(01:05:59):
It's some point the foolishness has got to stop. Can
you imagine the governor calling me in Youngstown to fly
flags at a half staff when not you alive?

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
Yeah, think so.

Speaker 7 (01:06:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
I said my check, he said, My chief of staff
said you're dead. I said, really, report to my demise
are premature because of Scott would alight and Scott Sloan,
you would alight and state their capital and the case.
That's what he wanted to call my wife and arrange form.
That's what I'm saying, Highway Patrol to come in you
escort my body to the rotunda. Now that would have

(01:06:35):
been mean in Columbus and thend of Washington, I mean
the United States Congress. Segment. Thank you, sir. Let's continue
with more. I'm open after two o'clock. I'm gonna take
calls segment. I'm gonna take calls if you do stand
up to watch the chair seven hundred WLW by Billy

(01:07:00):
Cunningham alive well in Sasse. I want to put a
shout out to the fourth grade girls. King's the Lady
Knights basketball team. The fourth graders, I assume about ten
years old. They cut down the nets yesterday in a
championship game. Because of the coaching of Bobby Cash Trucy.
They go twenty and two and the two games they
lost by a total of three points. First place wire

(01:07:21):
a wire like the nineteen ninety Reds led a course
by a coach Bobby Knight also known as Bobby Cass.
Trucy learned his winning ways at Deer Park. But congratulations
to the fourth grade girls Lady Knights basketball team. And
if Bobby cass Trucy, the head coach, wants to bring
in a couple of the girls, let's make it happen.
As I'm bringing in some group from Westchester. I love
to have young people come to this sacred radio station

(01:07:44):
that can be quite dangerous by the way, and to
commemorate their successes. We have a six lines available. I've
not taken a call now for over a month. Dave Keaton,
my executive producer, believes I should take more calls. So
here's your chance to be on yourself seven hundred WLW
by calling five to one three seven four nine seven thousand,

(01:08:07):
seven four nine, seven thousand and call now and Dave
Keaton will quickly screen your call and get on the air.
Many issues, so little time. Number one about what happened
on UH Sunday night with yours truly. I had a
little bit of a fall. Shall we say that was
Austin Elmo's fault because he changed things around. I stood up,
reached across the desks to UH to pull the console

(01:08:31):
close by, and unbeknownst to me, as I got up.
My chair went to the left and as I pulled
it forward so I could punch up a call mark
from Missouri, I sat down and the chair wasn't there,
and it moved and I hit My butt hit the
floor and my head hit the wall behind me. But
I'm loud, proud, and sassy. Some have accused me now

(01:08:53):
of suffering from PTSD or CTE, that I may become
a Democrat again. You never know, the reports of my
demise of premature. We have a ross from Portsmouth calling
in about it seven four nine, seven thousand, couple of quickies,
and I'm gonna go to the call. Big report out
out of a Japan Honda Moving Civic production, the top

(01:09:16):
selling brand from Mexico to Indiana, and response to Trump's tariffs,
that's a big win. I'm told also by my friends
at General Motors, more and more of their facilities in
Canada are going to be shipped to Ohio and Michigan
because of the Trump's tariffs. Is that a good thing
or a bad thing depends if you're a Canadian, or
if you're a Mexican, or if you're an American. Damn it,

(01:09:37):
I'm an American, and so I love that that we
have a president that puts America first. Zelensky made a
fool of himself on Friday. All the idiot had to
do was show up, thank you and me for the
support of the Ukraine. Maybe wear a suit. I think
it's a great idea to partner with the United States
of America to mind these raw exotic chemicals that are

(01:10:01):
part of so many modern devices, to make billions of
dollars with ten thousand American workers inside the Ukraine. But
he couldn't do that. He because the Democratic senators, including
Murphy and others, told him don't take the deal, and
a couple of Democratic senaters and shooting Chuck Schumer met

(01:10:21):
with him ahead of time before the Friday afternoon meeting
with the Trumpster and said, there's not enough security guarantees.
What the hell does that mean? Security guarantees? The only
guarantees you have in life is from Midas Muffler. There's
no guarantees at all. I think, by the way, I
think it's a terrible thing. The thirty some years ago,
the United States of America under Bill Clinton, guaranteed the

(01:10:41):
security of Ukraine in exchange for them giving up nuclear weapons.
And you know the downfall of the USSR became Russia.
Yeltsen was in charge, and we guaranteed Ukrainian security thirty
some years ago, and then the Ukraine gave back the
nuclear weapons Russia and the rest is history. It's terrible,

(01:11:02):
it's bad, but the economy is good or bad. I
want to hear from you, and also I want to
hear your reaction to Scott Sloan and some of the
tricks that he pulls on you. And I also want
to think, once again, a man named Tony Bender and
Scott rein Hard and so many others, DJ Hodge, and

(01:11:22):
they made it possible now for me to stay here
another four years. I told the Trumpster about four or
five months ago that if you're re elected, I will
protect the Northwest territories on the right wing. So I
have a voice, I have a vision. I have an
outlet of a great radio station, the best one. We
have more listeners now than we've ever had in the
forty two years that I've been here. And I love

(01:11:45):
working here. I love the people I work with, and
we have listeners out the wazoo, and I just like
what I'm doing. And when I lose the passion when
the butterflies don't form before a show, believe it or not. Yes,
I've done I don't know how many hours of talk
radio I'd have to end it up. I'm sure it's
tens of thousands of hours. And each day I get

(01:12:06):
up to do it, I enjoy it. And when I
stop enjoying it, I'll stop doing it. Maybe the station
will tell me we don't need you anymore, but that's
that's not the case at this point. So I'll be
with you every day of the second Trump term, and
who knows, maybe launched Jded into the stratosphere for his
first term. Because if this thing goes back the other

(01:12:27):
direction and Kamala Harris takes over the presidency in twenty
twenty eight, or Gavin Newsom or Pritz or someone like that,
things change fundamentally. To institutionalize the great changes, we must
have eight to twelve years of conservative libertarian rule. So
let's continue now with your CAUs as I promised, and
we have one line open at five pine three, seven four, nine,

(01:12:48):
seven thousand. Now is your opportunity to jump on the
air with me. Maybe you want to give the Trump
stor a grade Tomorrow night, he's got an address to
the Congress is not of the State of the Union address,
because normally a first term president hasn't been in office
long enough to take credit for all the great things
they've done. But the first six weeks of Donald Trump's
administration has saved the Union and save the United States

(01:13:09):
of America. Nothing short of that. Let's continue now with
John and Dayton, and then Dale and Oxford, and Ross
and Portsmouth and Michael and Batavia about ourish history and
so much more, and John and Dayton, Home of the Flyers.
Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And John, how are you.

Speaker 8 (01:13:25):
I'm great, Bill, thanks to let me call in here.
I'm glad that you're still picking and that Scott Sloane
exaggerated the circumstances.

Speaker 5 (01:13:34):
But I do have one glaring question that we need answered.

Speaker 1 (01:13:38):
Oh answer any question about this station, or about America
or about the world. Please go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:13:43):
Do you or do you not plan to vote Democrat
when you do pass away? Well?

Speaker 1 (01:13:51):
I have to give that some thoughts. You know, I
was a Democrat for a long time. In fact, I
was a John F. Kennedy type Democrat that ran for
office twice as a Democra each time I lost by
large numbers. And if I suffer CTE, if maybe have
a PTSD, I might I think the Democratic Party today
is not my Democratic Party. It's not the party of

(01:14:13):
Scoop Jackson, or the party of John F. Kennedy, or
it's not the party even of Dick Celeste. It's a
different party completely. And it appears that Democrats care more
about bathrooms than classrooms, and they care more about victims
of crime than the perpetrator. They wanted open borders, and
we found out that wasn't true. You might recall John

(01:14:34):
that for a long time the Republicans would not go
along with the Democratic plan on the southern border because
it meant the hiring of thousands of more administrative judges
and border patrol agents, because the southern border was wide open,
and they said it can't be fixed. We found out
after six weeks of the Trump presidency there's a ninety
five percent reduction in illegal crossings on the southern border.

(01:14:56):
So the present law we've had, which is what I've said,
it's sufficient to stop it from happening. And so now
when someone comes across the southern border, they detained them
in other words, they arrest them, they allowed them to
make their if they can their refugee application, then shipped
them back to their home country to wait for the
hearing to take place, and that all that had to happen.
For the last four years, we've had ten to fifteen

(01:15:17):
million legals poured in the country, which the Democrats purposely done.
They did that for reasons unclear to me. So the
odds of me becoming a Liberal Democrat, I hope non existent.
The odds of me becoming a John F. Kennedy Junior
Democrat or maybe a Dick Celeste Democrat that I drove
around spent time with, or Anthony Celebrezy is pretty good.
So it depends which party we're talking about. And I'm

(01:15:38):
glad you brought that up. The Democratic Party of the
past was stronger on defense and border issues than the
Republican Party. You might recall that John F. Kennedy ran
saying that Eisenhower wasn't tough enough. We needed we had
a missile gap. And so this Democratic Party, that Democratic
Party of this of Nancy Schumer and chucksh Nancy Pelosi

(01:16:01):
and Chuck Schumer is not my Democratic Party. So I'm
not going to become that kind of a Democrat. No,
your response, if.

Speaker 4 (01:16:07):
Any, Well, I was just wondering if the worst were
to happen, and that paul did take the toll that.

Speaker 8 (01:16:16):
Scott's polone said it did.

Speaker 3 (01:16:18):
Would you have a choice at that point?

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
Well, I hope at that point if I meet my maker,
I'm prepared to do so, not as a Democrat or
as a Republican. But it's a safe soul through Jesus Christ.
That's what I would say. Let's continue. Thousands and a
hold millions are listening. Let's go to Paula and Brookville.
Paula and Brookville, Paula and Brookville. Welcome to the Bill
Cunningham Show. Paula, you're on the air. Please go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
Oh I'm so signed.

Speaker 7 (01:16:44):
I'm so happy that I'm actually talking to you because
I was so upset this morning. I don't think it
was funny. I mean when I turned on the radio,
and I really just turn it on out of habit.
And I don't really like Scott Slow, to be honest
with you, but I listened to you every day and
I have for years. I've listened to you since you

(01:17:05):
were not even you know, since you were do any
other lawyer stuff, right, But I think of you as
a friend, you know, because I hear your voice just
about every day, and I, you know, I agree with
so many of the things that you talk about, and
you're a you're funny guy. And I have a great
sense of humor, I really do, and sometimes i'd even

(01:17:26):
consider my my humor is dark. If I know it's
a joke, I can take a joke. But when I
turned it on the radio and I hear the words
that you're dead, I mean I was crying, so just
to let you know, I just it was like a friend,
you know, I was in shock. I was yelling to
my husband that you know, Bill Cunningham is dead, and

(01:17:49):
I was very upset.

Speaker 5 (01:17:50):
It really upset me.

Speaker 7 (01:17:52):
So I don't think it was funny at all. Maybe
if I had heard the very beginning of what he said,
right and after I heard your story about what happened,
I actually kind of chuckled, you know, because your stories
cracked me up. And then I you know, it was
kind of it was humorous when I heard you talking
about what happened. But when you turn on the radio

(01:18:13):
and you hear someone that you really love, and I
feel as though I do love you. I just didn't
find it humorous at all.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
I'm sorry, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:18:27):
I'm so glad to hear your voice. I'm glad you're okay.

Speaker 1 (01:18:30):
Thank you. And when it happened last night, I went
to my producer, took me off the air. Thought something
had happened. He came, Danny Gleeson ran in here. By
that point, I was sitting in my chair and I
was saying, Mark, are you there? Mark, are you there?
And we were in the middle of a break, which
I didn't hear because my headset was ripped off, and
I'm thinking, okay, And I did not know Scott Cloan

(01:18:51):
had done that till I came in about ten thirty
quarter to eleven. I would have told him to stop,
because people like to think we have some level of credibility.
And Scott and the Inquir did a story on It's
in the Inquirs one of their headlines, Bill Cunningham is
not dead. I'm thinking, well, you know, I told the
truth and it was unfortunate. And the chair was behind me.

(01:19:13):
As I stood up to move the telepad closer to
me so I could put Mark on the air, I
sat down. There was no chair there, and my butt
hit the floor and my head hit the wall behind me,
and my head sat ripped off and I said, Mark,
are you there? And I had no injury whatsoever. I
didn't hurt. I mean, I've played racketball, I've played rugby,

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I've done things in my life or run six marathons.
I think my bones are in pretty good shape. I
have the mind I think of an eighteen year old,
maybe up to twenty five year old in the body
of a thirty five year old. And I'm blessed. And Paula,
I thank you for listening. I tell you every now
and then you get a call from someone who I
don't know, that I've never met and likely never will meet,

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and You've made my day. It makes me think what
I do here is somewhat relevant in many people's lives.
I thank you for calling it is.

Speaker 7 (01:20:02):
And I did cry, and I'm I'm so relieved that
you're okay, and and God bless you and everything that
you do and your funnier than how I love listening
to you.

Speaker 1 (01:20:13):
Well, I got I got four more years. I made
the decision. I talked to DJ Hodge and heart media.
I've done it for forty two years, and I guess, God,
God willing, I'll do it four more years and then
assess what to do. But I told Donald Trump about
four months ago before he was elected, actually that I
was going to if you get elected, I'll stay four
more years, and said, I'm going to hold you to it.
And I said, look, I love what I'm doing. People

(01:20:35):
like me here. I enjoy it. It makes my day.
And I'm going to take off some more time that
I've taken off before, because you know, tomorrow has promised
to no one, and I want to enjoy my life
while I still can. And I want to play golf
with my buddies, with Wally and with Tino and with
Mike Lane and my buddiest. I got a different life
in Naples, Florida, completely different because different friends, different people,

(01:20:58):
and I love going there. And they built a great
studio there that I can broadcast from there or here,
broadcast in today's world from anywhere. It doesn't that great.
It used to be I had to drive to Fort Myers,
but not anymore. But well, as I said, Paula, dry
your tears, I'm going to be here, God willing for
the next four years and we'll see what happens. And
you made my day.

Speaker 7 (01:21:17):
Well, I love you. I know a lot of people
probably feel exactly the same way I did. I kept
trying to call the station and I couldn't get through,
so I emailed a pretty nasty email about Scotts.

Speaker 1 (01:21:30):
Well maybe tomorrow he should apologize. Shouldn't he apologize?

Speaker 7 (01:21:34):
I think he should. Just like the idiot from Ukraine,
Well we got two things going on.

Speaker 1 (01:21:39):
Well they're idiots, And all I can say is Scott Sloan.
I like him. He was from Toledo. I lived there
for six years, went to law school in Toledo. The
mud Hens and Mancy's and Paco's had a great life there,
but I wanted to come back home.

Speaker 5 (01:21:52):
Hell.

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
I was born in Covington, families from Erlanger and Ellesmere,
and I grew up in Deer Park. And you know,
I'm in this community and I love what I do
and I'm not going to give it up. If they
told me next week we don't need your services anymore,
I'd say thank you, let me say goodbye and I'm gone.
But they've told me they want me here four more years,

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and that's what I intend to do.

Speaker 7 (01:22:15):
Well, You're very well loved, and I'm glad I was
able to get through at least speak for I'm sure
more than just myself.

Speaker 1 (01:22:21):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:24):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:25):
I shall Paula, you made my day and thank you
very much.

Speaker 7 (01:22:28):
Oh God love you.

Speaker 6 (01:22:29):
Okay, bye bye, God bless me.

Speaker 1 (01:22:31):
Thank you. Every now and then you get a call
from someone you don't know, you likely never will meet.
This makes me feel as if what I've done for
all these many, many years, it's been worthwhile. And maybe
it has too many and I know I anger quite
a few, but nonetheless I think I helped more than
I hurt. So let's continue with more and if line

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becomes available seven four nine, seven thousand, Billy Cunningham, the
Great American live with you every day, hopefully for the
next four years or longer, all on news radio seven
hundred w l W. Let's continue now with Mark and
Missouri and many others if the line becomes available eight
six six six four seven, seven three three seven and
Mark and Missouri. Welcome to the Bill Cunningham.

Speaker 4 (01:23:17):
Thanks Bill, that's President of the Obvious the other day, Mark,
are you still there, Yes, sir Bill, Hello, Hey Bill, Bill.

Speaker 6 (01:23:32):
New treatments for joint pain.

Speaker 1 (01:23:36):
Commercial.

Speaker 8 (01:23:37):
Oh hello, quiet.

Speaker 1 (01:23:40):
And I'm I'm broadcasting Rocky. It was Austin Elmo that
put thee and everybody else what this is going to
go down in history? Now the golf shoes and the
roof and now you read you got the wreath, the reeth.
I got the the wreath that's right there. And now

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this because you can't sit in your rear end in
a chair. And you see how it happened. Now, yeah,
I did. I I heard the explanation.

Speaker 9 (01:24:07):
You gave me a play by play, and the conclusion
I've come to say is he's not a very good athlete.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
Thank you. If you can't stand up, hit the button
on the phone and sit back down, you want to,
you want to try it. I can do it, I
tell you. And then I'm reaching over here to get
him on the air. Do it again my chair, and
then I sit down and all of a sudden I'm
on the floor of my head against the wall. But

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everyone's texting me, yeah, no, here we go.

Speaker 8 (01:24:37):
I have a little problem.

Speaker 7 (01:24:38):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
The problem spell down.

Speaker 8 (01:24:41):
I'm I'm on the roof of my house.

Speaker 5 (01:24:45):
Problem.

Speaker 8 (01:24:46):
I can't get off the roof. Okay, here, but the
ladder isn't big enough, and I'm stuck in the corner
of the house. I'm a little bit afraid of the
of the heights and movement out of my leg under
my body, and I got to get off the roof
and I'm pass eating the here. Okay, and your name,
sir Bill there is this is classic. I'm embarrassed about this.

Speaker 1 (01:25:14):
Yeah, that's me.

Speaker 8 (01:25:16):
I came up here to take the wind.

Speaker 5 (01:25:17):
Out of the.

Speaker 8 (01:25:19):
I got the lint out.

Speaker 1 (01:25:20):
You would have done the same thing.

Speaker 8 (01:25:22):
Then I turned around with the ladder.

Speaker 1 (01:25:23):
I think my pride would let me just fall off
the roof. But they were like these whirling fans in
my temp Star air conditioner. I would have been an
accusan art. I would have been chopped up.

Speaker 9 (01:25:33):
But listen that the station is not going to pay
for this studio to be revamped in a way that's
safer for you, with like safety chairs, like maybe a
seat belt, Yeah, some seat belts.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
Do we need to get you one of those metal
alert necklaces. I've fallen out, I can't get up. Do
we need to get you one of those? The hell's
going on? He needs a seat belt? Go to Joseph
several and get yourself a seat belt. What about me
and athletes? Hand up? Nobody what I did?

Speaker 5 (01:26:02):
Nobody?

Speaker 1 (01:26:03):
The chair wasn't here. Do you look every time you
sit down and you say, okay, let me see if
the chair the chair and moved to my butt hit
the floor and my head hit the wall.

Speaker 9 (01:26:12):
You got to the chair goes backwards. I'm I mean,
I'm giving the example right now.

Speaker 1 (01:26:17):
Mine did, demonstrating it went backwards to there. And then
when I sat down, I hit the edge of the
chair that went that way. My butt went that way,
my head went there.

Speaker 9 (01:26:25):
You gotta like subconsciously reach back as I'm doing right now,
chair up behind.

Speaker 1 (01:26:30):
Your rear end. I had Mark from Missouri and had
to be hurt. Now look, I run marathons, I win
paddleball championships right yes, basketball, I'm in the Hall of Fame.
You lost it. Pickleball bait. Same, I'm sorry, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
That was a blow.

Speaker 1 (01:26:47):
Sure, welcome. That was his fault. Right there, there we go.
First thing, everybody else. The first thing I look at
those guys, I said, problem flat stand ninety. He's such
a problem with you. He's got bow legs, got candy.
You can't and say he's got headband, wristband. He looks
like a pumpkin. I said, all right, can we gotta
be guy doesn't easy on these guys until first go

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eleven to one. I said, well done being easy looking good.
That was eleven zero.

Speaker 9 (01:27:13):
So you've done all these athletic things your whole life,
and now you can't see the chair.

Speaker 1 (01:27:17):
You can't even thank you chair move without my intent.
I think it was sabotage. Sabotage. We know about the saboteur,
saboteur elmore knock you off to slot this nineteen.

Speaker 3 (01:27:37):
That was the word.

Speaker 1 (01:27:40):
That was the word that the French freedom fighters to
blow up the bridges so the German army could not
advance to Uh do you even give me the necklace
that I can't get up?

Speaker 5 (01:27:50):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (01:27:51):
I won't, I won't come, I won't come in here
if you have that necklace. Well, I'm just saying that
left you out of it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:58):
This danger. Yeah, like like you go this stairs and
then takes you up and down and then then a
lazy Yes there's a lazy boy that pushes you up
out of the chair up into a standing building. And
maybe it's worse, you know, investing in something like that way,
and maybe what about can I change this subject? No,
Honda's going to move it's Mexican manufacturing plan on their

(01:28:19):
civic from Mexico to Indiana. Look to your left, semi
conductors or backbone. Now you got the Taiwanese locating one
hundred billion dollars, then Apple five hundred billion. And look
on your left about military families rocked by Trump's federal
government cuts. So Fox News is talking about five hundred billion,

(01:28:39):
one hundred billion, talk about Honda civics, and what does
CNN talk about Zelenski the ballerina. It's unbelievable, by the way.
You see the border numbers too.

Speaker 9 (01:28:48):
So in twenty twenty two, in the month of February
there were sixty six thousand border crossings twenty twenty three
hundred and fifty six thousand, twenty twenty four, one hundred
and ninety thousand, February.

Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
Twenty twenty five, eighty three.

Speaker 9 (01:29:03):
And twenty six ninety substantial, substantial drop off.

Speaker 1 (01:29:07):
Remember what your Democratic friends said, we have to pass
this new border bill. Our thousands of more administrative judges,
tens of thousands and iron will to get done. All
we need is somebody to say stop it and force
the present law, and segment doesn't believe in that.

Speaker 9 (01:29:21):
The people that were critical of Trump in that meeting
on Friday, what would they have expected Trump to do?

Speaker 1 (01:29:27):
Sit there and take it. Trump is the one guy
in the room that wants Does the Lisky want peace?
I don't think he does. Know he wants us to
be He wants to continue the American War.

Speaker 9 (01:29:37):
Everybody on the planet knows he can't win that war
except for him, So he doesn't want peace.

Speaker 1 (01:29:41):
So what are people critical of Trump for a wanting piece?
One and more piece and half the money we send
there is in relates bank account in Switzerland. Well, if
they send American troops over there, it's w W three.

Speaker 3 (01:29:53):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
Got a text here from the president of the Kenwock
Country Club to you your membership for non athleticism. Brand
new golf carts at KCC will have seat belts, any
rails and call them because of you seat belt extra
wide chairs. That's what Tony Tulusiac says. Also airbags. Do
you need an assistant here are we at this point?

(01:30:14):
You need like an assistant of blonde brunette or redhead. Hey, Jennifer,
Jennifer Ketchmark has lots of free time. Will heave the
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call tam Star for that Reds update. Thank you Roxy
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party supplies. How about this? The fall you took would
have killed a normal American. When Paul look said, from
what killed you? You would have fallen all over the stadium.

(01:30:57):
I like to see you take the fall that I took,
and I'm back at ticking. Let's see. Nicolodlo starts tonight
for the Reds against the brew Crew at seven thirty
five of the Arno carriers inside pitch. I'm betting on
the Reds on the over. Do you agree or not?

Speaker 6 (01:31:11):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:31:11):
Bengals up. They brought to you by good Spirits. Winding
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(01:31:37):
Guy that owns the Hilton Hotels. That guy franchise tag
deadline tomorrow. Rock free agency starts one week from today.
In the National Football League? What about T? What about T?
What about T? I don't know. Jimmy Johnson, here you go,
rock your chance. Jimmy Johnson, the Hall of Fame coach,
Super Bowl champion, retiring from NFL on Fox opens up

(01:32:01):
as an NFL endalyst. When's the last time he raced
in NASCAR?

Speaker 3 (01:32:04):
What year was that?

Speaker 1 (01:32:06):
Now this is the other Jimmy Johnson not the same guy. No,
the fall has affected his brain. Say thank you, continue,
good luck, Willy to Cheryl McHenry Dayton television icons, she
is going to retire in May after forty four years.
Wow Channel seven and Dayton I've seen her now on
that and we also say I used to date her,

(01:32:27):
by the way. We also was sad news. Greg Hord
passed away over the weekend. Former Reds beat writer Fox nineteen,
Channel five reporter. Great guy and the guy that had
an alter ego of Buster Poindexter, Hot Hot Hot with
the what was it the the something Dolls. The band

(01:32:51):
was the Dolls, and he was the alter ego Dolls.
Thank you, Buster Poindexter passing away over the weekend at
seventy five, the lead singer, Right, yeah, what about Gene Hackney?
Wait a minute, hold on the Jeane hit.

Speaker 3 (01:33:03):
The music.

Speaker 1 (01:33:05):
Makes me want to dance. You want to dance, truck, No,
you can't dance. We can't risk that. Yeah, we must
let me like duct tape you to that chair the day. Look,
how dangerous is you? Do you need to You'll need
a mine field. There's not piranhas over there. Should we
get a wheelchair and wheel you out of the building
when you're when you leave, just to make sure you

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get down there and shut up. I like Mike Dwaine's
gonna you got hair, I got everything.

Speaker 9 (01:33:33):
You consider yourself a better athletes than seg seg How
many years are you working here?

Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
Have you ever fallen on air?

Speaker 5 (01:33:39):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:33:40):
Have you thrown carts? Plenty of them? Have you been
trapped on your roof?

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:33:45):
And you beat me and pick a ball? Amen to
that brother. Amen the way. We just got to report
from Bob Jones the Plumber. The Bengals have Tea have
teed up tea with the with the tag T is
twenty six million. According to Bob Jones the Plumber, I
got it from Jets also in rap report. But yes,
but I forget about him. I'm talking Bob Jones plumbing.

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As indicated, Nice T Higgins has been tagged. T is tagged.
Your comments? What about that? Football league has confirmed it,
But Bob Jones the Plumber says, yes, it's happened. See,
I get my information from all over the place. You
guys are watching the combine over the weekend. I did, Yes,
I did. I watched the god and I able to
run the fastest time ever.

Speaker 3 (01:34:29):
I saw that.

Speaker 9 (01:34:30):
Yes, the Texas wide receiver Matthew Golden increased his draft
stock significantly, ran the four nine in the forty for
the year after Rezavir Worthy Altar from Texas ran the
four to one.

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
Boys in Texas can fly. How'd they do in the games?

Speaker 3 (01:34:48):
What was it?

Speaker 1 (01:34:49):
What was the time that when you stood up and
hit the floor? What was that time? It was under
four seconds? Okay, quick, okay, just checking kind of like
marital sex. Correct, please continue, I got nothing. I'm just
saying that Scott Sloan made a fool of himself. Would
you agree? I hate people. You got to be kissing?

(01:35:11):
Text me all morning? What happened to Will? He calls him,
literally calls me a So are you sure? I said, hey,
I am alive. He said no. My chiefest step said,
send you a cherry pie. Well, she owes me something
little cherry pie would be good for friends. So she said,
apple line. Nothing tastes better than cherry pie early in

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the morning or late at night. Pretty good stuff. Brock
was on The Big Show also subsid injury to look
at my hand. Look look it that right there. As
I fell, I hit the hit the hit there right there.
These walls are padded, by the way. Thank god, I
would have cracked my head. I would have become and
I have thicker padding for you. Apparently, I think I

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might become a dumbing athlete, a gram bright athlete. Am
I shot my age in Florida twice. You can't hang
a wreath.

Speaker 9 (01:35:59):
You got on your roof and you fell in in
the studio like on the ice stating ranger on the
basketball in the studio taking a call.

Speaker 10 (01:36:08):
Miss if we did not recognize the fact that there
was a major pickle ball battle that you place in
Middletown today, I mean major. You On one side was
Bill Seig Dennison along with mister pickleball of Middletown, eighty
four year old Stanley.

Speaker 1 (01:36:29):
Bolkan eighty four years before Stanley, and their.

Speaker 10 (01:36:31):
Competition blind two guys who fashioned themselves as athletes. Bill
the Mouth Cunningham, he loves me, Bill what the former
Notre Dame star and NFL star.

Speaker 1 (01:36:43):
Rocky Boyman ex of St. X High School X of
Saint X.

Speaker 10 (01:36:47):
And they had a butt whip and applied to them
flat stain by the duo of Dennison and Vulcans, the
likes of which they will.

Speaker 1 (01:36:55):
Not soon forget. When did and see that coming?

Speaker 3 (01:36:57):
Did we?

Speaker 1 (01:36:57):
There was a two oz pitches foul law were considered
it impossible.

Speaker 10 (01:37:02):
Cincinnati, like a couple of.

Speaker 1 (01:37:04):
Whimpering Ninnis leave and pile.

Speaker 10 (01:37:08):
Haile Seg Dennison and Stanley Bolkins embarrassed to one pitch.

Speaker 1 (01:37:13):
And pitch it's weaminess in to one pitch.

Speaker 10 (01:37:21):
Humiliating would not be a strong enough word to describe
the scrap a whip and they put on those.

Speaker 1 (01:37:26):
Boards when you run out of the parking lot and
just get the car. Certainly, I know I didn't gone,
no hand out, no interviews, nothing, and seg somebody called
in the report nine to one one.

Speaker 3 (01:37:39):
What was that?

Speaker 1 (01:37:40):
But yeah, somebody called the police showed up after you
guys left and said that somebody got there, you know
what kicked and they were going to try to try
to apprehend you guys. Uh when you left, but I
guess we were fames. Ohio State Patrol couldn't catch up
with you. You got out of Middletown, you know, like

(01:38:00):
they We left quickly like that like a jet jet
plane to begin. So we got a text from Russ Jackson.
T was tagged for twenty six point one seven million,
and we got Russ Jackson and Bob Jones Plumber reporting
on sports. I love it, all right, All.

Speaker 9 (01:38:18):
Is well, maybe T can give up some of that
sign that that money and he can donate to you
in safe proving this studio so this doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:38:26):
Get proven, get proved good proof. Austin Elmo did it
with that thing right there, trying to take over. We
have to hit the seg Man, get me out of
the Studge Report, please, Willy, and honor of you falling down,
and that maybe they'll make a movie out of that.
Maybe remember that falling down the movie? And I can't
get off too. Thank god you're still alive. We leave

(01:38:47):
you with the immortal words of the stud Report. At
some point the foolishness has got it. Thank you. He's
gonna fly the flags and half staff for three days
when I die.

Speaker 3 (01:38:57):
Is that good?

Speaker 1 (01:38:58):
That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Yeah. On seven hundred
w LW